I needed a diff tool to compare text files on my Mac, and it turned out to be a time-consuming endeavor to find a basic free diff tool. One option is to install the Mac developer toolkit Xtools, but if all you need is the diff tool, why would you want to install 750MB worth
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In his wonderful book “Designing for the Social Web” (2008), Joshua Porter provides this nice little url in a footnote, he calls it a “super cool link,” and it really is. It is Tim Berner-Lee’s original Executive Summary on Usenet, posted on Aug 6 1991, 3:37 pm, introducing his “WorldWideWeb Project”. Really exciting to read: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.hypertext/msg/395f282a67a1916c?pli=1 Thanks
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I just noticed an article in Digital Web Magazine by Rachel Andrews over at SitePoint, who has written extensively about pros and cons of css vs. table layouts. In this article, she demonstrates how to use css tables using the css display property, which will be supported by Internet Explorer 8, “the last major browser
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In case you have had problems getting your latest css/html changes show up in Firefox 3 and couldn’t find the cache settings anywhere in the tools menu – they are actually not there anymore. To configure Firefox 3 to look for a new page on the server everytime you request the page, do the following:
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I keep running into this problem with Dreamweaver: Copy, paste, redo, and undo suddenly stop working. I then find myself on google for the next hour trying to solve the problem. Since I don’t want to keep wasting my time, I decided to post the solution here for my own sake. Adobe offers three different
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It is refreshing to see John Allsopp’s smart article about “The Dao of Web Design” re-surface on the December 2008 issue of “A List Apart” (as editor’s choice - hat off to the editor). Constantly shifting and evolving web paradigms (then pull – now push; first Web 1.0 - soon Web 3.0) make us frown when Google returns results as old as
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